Name: Artist and Curators in Conversation: Nilima Sheikh: Fractured Skies
Start: 2026-09-29T18:30
End: 2026-09-29T20:00
Location: Terrace Café

Tue, Sep 29, 6:30–8:00 p.m.

MoMA, Floor 6W, Terrace Café

The Carroll and Milton Petrie Terrace Café

Image: Nilima Sheikh. Son et Lumière (detail). 2006/10. Casein tempera on canvas. Collection: Kiran Nadar Museum of Art

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Join us for a private reception and viewing, followed by a roundtable conversation celebrating Nilima Sheikh: Fractured Skies with artist Nilima Sheikh; Cara Manes, Associate Curator, Department of Painting and Sculpture, MoMA; and Roobina Karode, Artistic Director and Chief Curator, Kiran Nadar Museum of Art, New Delhi.

Experience three major bodies of work that showcase the artist’s visionary practice over the past two decades, and learn more about the exhibition from the artist, in dialogue with the curators.

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Organized by The Museum of Modern Art, New York (MoMA), and the Kiran Nadar Museum of Art, New Delhi (KNMA). The exhibition is organized by Cara Manes, Associate Curator, Department of Painting and Sculpture, MoMA, and Roobina Karode, Artistic Director and Chief Curator, KNMA, with Elizabeth Wickham, Curatorial Assistant, Department of Painting and Sculpture, MoMA, and Avijna Bhattacharya, Senior Curator, KNMA.

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